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Corporate Finance and Development Practice
Emerging Companies
We use our years of business, venture capital and legal experience to assist our emerging companies to grow and to be able to raise capital and/or be acquired. In addition to the services we provide through the corporate law, real estate, and intellectual property practices, we work closely with emerging growth companies, helping them to dually focus on business strategy and legal approaches necessary for optimal growth. We work so closely with emerging companies that, in effect, we serve as in-house counsel, but with a focus on corporate development as well as legal issues.
To serve the needs of today's entrepreneur, this group comprises experienced, hands-on business counselors offering practical solutions to a variety of issues. These issues range from counseling on all aspects of company formation, such as choice of legal entity, tax issues, founders and shareholders, equity compensation arrangements, and assignments of inventions, to identifying sources of funding, finding people who may be helpful for business growth, assisting with the development of business plans, and negotiating and drafting the legal documentation for private placements of capital, including venture capital, and/or merger and acquisitions. Through this practice, we make a long-term commitment to our emerging growth companies and their businesses.
As business plans, including financial models, are paramount to impressing investors or buyers, we ensure our clients focus on them. leadmedic.com
Business Plan Development
Emerging companies only have one chance to impress investors. The business plan is often the only basis investors will use to decide whether to invest or not. If the business plan does not pass their initial screening process, then the company will likely be turned down without any further discussion. A company that needs debt or equity funding cannot afford to have less than an exceptional business plan.
At Blackshear Capital & Legal, we use of former venture capital experience to help our clients to create entire business plans that accurately reflect all aspects of their businesses and highlights the attributes that investors find particularly appealing.
Financial Forecast Modeling
Since investors spend much of their time dissecting financial forecasts, it is very important that they are easy to follow, sensible, precise, and integrate. We work with clients to create comprehensive financial models that include historical financial and detailed assumption-based forecasted financial statements (P&L, cash flow and balance sheet statements). Because our financial models are assumption-based, they can be easily manipulated for one to forecast how a change in any of the key assumptions may affect a business.
When a client is contemplating being acquired raising debt or equity capital, we work to negotiate the terms and draft the transactional documents in a manner that best protects our client's interests.
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